SQUADS #2

1. CPW Learning Intentions - Today, I am going to address these College Readiness Standards in English: Organization, Unity, and Coherence 20-23, 24-27 Conventions of Punctuation 16-19, 28-32 Conventions of Usage 20-23 Topic Development in Terms of Purpose and Focus 24-27 Word Choice in Terms of Style, Tone, Clarity, and Economy 24-27, 28-32 SQUADS #2 “10th Grade English” Success Criteria – I will know I am successful if I can organize a paragraph, select the most appropriate punctuation, choose the best word choice, and develop the sentence based on topic and focus.

2. 10th Grade English • 1. In preliminary tests under simulated combat conditions, the Navajo encoded, transmitted, and decoded a three-line message in twenty seconds, whereas the machines required thirty minutes to perform the same job. Nevertheless, these tests convinced the officials of the value of using the Navajo language in a code. • A. NO CHANGE • B. Similarly, these • C. Still, these • D. These

3. 10th Grade English • 2. The Navajo language is complex, with a structure and sounds that makes them unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure to it. • A. NO CHANGE • B. makes it • C. make it • D. make them

4. 10th Grade English • 3. Her gestures fit the pace of the narrative. And though many of the stories are intended to make the audience laugh, Smith is fully aware of the other values of storytelling. Indeed, she identifies strongly with the griots of West Africa. • A. NO CHANGE • B. Well, • C. However, • D. At once,

5. 10th Grade English • 4. Smith realized the extent of her gift when her friend, who had gathered essential material critical to writing his best-selling novel Roots from a griot in Gambia, began to refer to her as “my American griot.” • A. NO CHANGE • B. for • C. important to • D. that was essential to

6. 10th Grade English • #5. Since there’s not much chance that a seven-year-old just learning the game can hit a pitched baseball, the umpire puts the ball on top of a stationary tee, a piece of flexible tubing adjusted to each batter’s height. If batters repeatedly fail to hit the ball – and lots of them do – the umpire is patient, giving them four or five chances instead of the usual three. • Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable? • A. umpire patiently gives • B. umpire, who is patient, gives • C. umpire, who patiently gives • D. patient umpire gives

7. 10th Grade English 6. The bleacher section is full of parents, each adult frantically holding up a stiff arm. The child with the ball wonders at the grown-up’s odd, noisy behavior. A. NO CHANGE B. grown-ups’ C. grown-ups D. grown-ups,

8. 10th Grade English From the passage titled “Fixing Raptor Feathers” 7. Raptors, including eagles and hawks, normally shed their feathers slowly, one or two at a time. The premature loss of a flight feather to injury, then, is not an incidental matter to raptors, most of which are diurnal. • A. NO CHANGE • B. raptors. • C. raptors, most of which are mainly active during the day – that is, diurnal. • D. raptors, daytime-hunting creatures for the most part

9. 10th Grade English 8. If a feather breaks off with the stub of its hollow quill shaft still in place, the bird’s body mistakenly believes the feather is whole. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable? A. sound. B. complete. C. total. D. intact.

10. 10th Grade English • 9. The quill of this replacement feather is trimmed so that when the replacement feather is eventually attached to the quill stub still in the bird’s body, the repaired feather will be equal in length to the original, whole feather. Next, the rehabilitator whittles a bamboo chopstick to duplicate the curve and slant of the complete feather shaft. • A. NO CHANGE • B. However, • C. Indeed, • D. Finally,

11. 10th Grade English 10. After sliding the shaft of the replacement feather over the sturdy, light bamboo stick, glue – just a touch – is applied. A. NO CHANGE B. a touch of glue is applied by the rehabilitator. C. the application of a touch of glue follows. D. the rehabilitator applies a touch of glue.

12. CPW 10th Grade English • Exchange your answer sheet with that of another squad… • Launch the PDF.